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From: swarren@wwwdotorg•org (Stephen Warren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ASoC: generic: Add generic DT based simple codec
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:19:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5240B07C.6080404@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130919105437.75e0f0a3@armhf>

On 09/19/2013 02:54 AM, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> This patch adds a simple sound codec which is described by the DT.
> This codec may be used when no specific codec action is needed.

> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/simple-codec.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/simple-codec.txt

> +Device-Tree bindings for the simple codec
> +
> +Required properties:
> +- compatible: should be "linux,simple-codec".

We shouldn't have any Linux-specific bindings. It might be reasonable to
define a binding for a "simple CODEC", but there's no reason it should
be Linux-specific.

> +- dai-name: name of the codec

That should be internal to the driver; it's Linux-specific.

> +Optional properties:
> +- capture: information about capture
> +- playback: information about playback
> +At least one of the 'capture' or 'playback' nodes must be present.

Judging by the example, those are nodes not properties.

> +Child 'capture' and 'playback' required properties:
> +- stream-name: name of the stream

Stream name is also probably too Linux-specific.

> +- formats: list of the supported formats (see below)
> +- rates: list of the supported rates (see below)
> +- #channels: minimum and maximum numbers of channels
> +
> +Formats:
> +	"s8"
> +	"u8"

I think the binding should specify on-the-wire formats, not in-memory
formats. For example, if this binding is used to represent an I2S CODEC,
it's more important to know whether it supports left-justified,
right-justified, DSP mode, etc., and the max number of bits (or perhaps
a list of supported numbers of bits) per channel in each case.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-23 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-19  8:54 [PATCH] ASoC: generic: Add generic DT based simple codec Jean-Francois Moine
2013-09-19 10:40 ` Mark Brown
2013-09-19 17:34   ` Jean-Francois Moine
2013-09-19 17:49     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-09-19 18:12       ` Mark Brown
2013-09-19 18:05     ` Mark Brown
2013-09-23 21:19 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2013-09-23 23:26   ` Mark Brown
2013-09-26 23:16     ` Stephen Warren
2013-09-27  2:57   ` Rob Herring
2013-09-27  9:55     ` Mark Brown
2013-09-30 16:49     ` Stephen Warren
2013-09-30 17:43       ` Mark Brown

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